This week on ArenaCast we recap the events that took place at the ESL Finals. On the show we have the usual cast of Keith Igoaf Trahan, JP moogle McDaniel, Nathan Kintt Quinn, Sam oplaid Lingle, and last but not least, Vance Serennia Phuoc.

Serennia will no doubt be answering to the rest of his crew about the performance in Hannover this past weekend. The cast will also discuss the state of the US WoW E-sports scene. Can we become as strong as we once were? Did we send the wrong teams? Can SK.USA…  More

I woke up this morning in a hotel in Germany, getting ready to travel home tomorrow when I read the blog Realzz posted about the 3.0 patch incoming.  I really hoped that it was just Realzz speculating, but when I followed the link to a Blue post, I was very disappointed.

I know people have mixed feelings and memories about the pre-tbc 2.0 patch.  A month before the patch I transferred a Priest to Tichondrius to play with Notorious and more importantly play with Noktyn.  I felt 2.0 was a bit la…  More

So as I've been trying to travel home (24 hours in airports/planes so far yay), I've been reading every post I can about the quality of the MLG tourney.   Obviously I'm most concerned with the commentary comments, so I think the best way to grab the constructive criticism is to post here (BOY THIS IS A TERRIBLE IDEA).

I want you guys to be honest, most of you posters have known me for a while either through playing on Tich, through the bg9 irc, or just from seeing me at prior events.&nb…  More

The video game industry as it exists today primarily sprang from two independent sources. The first of these was the coin-operated amusement business that began in the late nineteenth century at amusement parks, boardwalks, bars, and bowling alleys and consisted of mechanical devices operated by patrons who inserted coins to make the machines work. Starting in 1948, the jukebox became the most profitable and important coin-operated amusement device, but the most important game was pinball.[…  More

At the same time the arcade business was taking hold, important advances in electronics led to the creation of the first computers between 1937 and 1945 in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The early computers were giant mainframes that could take up whole rooms and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and, as a result, were only found at top university research facilities and government institutions. As the transistor replaced the vacuum tube and the integrated circuit…  More

twelve: the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one   More

After reading many comments on gameriot about wanting comp swapping to be removed, I think I need to put Team Pandemic's view on this issue in writing.  As a manager of a team that has many star players, we of course were sad to hear that this tournament would not be following the normal WSVG setup of being allowed to use 5 players for a 3v3 match.  On the plane ride over, I had a lot of time to think about this tournament and the way it was setup, and I personally have decided that …  More

They both haven't lost a WSVG round   More

You've read his blog ( http://worldofpapa.blogspot.com), discussed his claims (#1 Worldwide PVP), watched his video, ... ridiculed his performance in WSVG Toronto. Feeling bored and looking for ways to procrastinate, I sought out Papashlapa, to find out more about the man and the mage...

Kari: Hi Papashlapa!

PapaShlapa says: hi Kat!

 

Kari: Why don't you tell me a bit about yourself?

PapaShlapa says: My name's Reien Meissner. I'm of …  More

Bad karma inc for GMP

http://www.destructoid.com/happy-national-videogames-day-no-we-didn-t-know-it-existed-either-43939.phtml  More